Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories to Be Read With the Lights on by Alfred Hitchcock (Editor) 3.92 avg rating â 249 ratings â published 1973 â 10 editions Want to Read savingâ¦ Error rating book.
drop - a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); he had a drop too much to drink; a drop of each sample was analyzed; there is not a drop of pity in that man; years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet--Kipling. drib, driblet.
A historiated illuminated initial. In a written or published work, an initial or dropcap is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning. An initial often is several lines in height and in older books or manuscripts, sometimes ornately decorated.